Appendix 3.1
Lesson 3: Introduction Activity
The following words/phrases will be cut into individual rectangles and given to groups of four or five. Students will be asked to categorise them under four headings (Social Purpose, Schematic Structure, Audience and Key grammatical features)
Social Purpose

Schematic Structure
Audience
Key Grammatical Features

Simple present tense
Generalised Information
Text connectives
General statement
Quantity adjectives
Repeated naming of topic as the Theme
Classifying
Adjectival phrases
Oral
Descriptions
Describe
General Nouns
Factual adjectives
Compound Sentences
Lexical Cohesion
Adverbials of place and manner
Relating Verbs
Conjunctions
Complex Sentences
Classifying adjectives
Paragraphs
Context
Written
Action Verbs